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2/7/2022
22 : 34
Monday Musings (Launch, Beauty, Business, Friendship, Poker)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Write of Passage opens for enrollment twice per year and today is one of those days. Writing consistently is one of the best ways to
2/4/2022
20 : 44
Friday Finds (Netflix, Marx, Writing, Astrophysics)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Ok, I changed my mind on something. For years, I thought I'd never put a TV in my home, but I'm getting one installed in my
1/31/2022
18 : 54
Monday Musings (Feynman, Girard, Quality, Profit)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! With the next Write of Passage cohort beginning in a month, I wrote a Twitter thread about why you should write in public. Two things stick
1/29/2022
1 : 54
Friday Finds (School, YouTube, McLuhan, Wagner, Girard)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I spent the week recording 65000 words worth of scripted lectures about the philosopher René Girard, which were hosted by my friend
1/24/2022
22 : 4
Monday Musings (Abundance, Paul Graham, The Beatles, Girard)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Milestone celebration time: This is the 200th edition of Monday Musings. It started as an experiment in 2018, and I've never missed a
1/21/2022
19 : 24
Friday Finds (Career, Paul Graham, Propaganda, Art, Philosophy)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from London! I spent the week visiting museums and filming YouTube videos with Ali Abdaal. If there's anything I love about culturally-rich cities
1/17/2022
18 : 34
Monday Musings (Travel, Sketching, Ireland, London, Olympics)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from London! In a thirst for inspiration, I'm sending this Musings from the British Museum, just a few feet away from the Rosetta Stone. Today, I
1/14/2022
19 : 24
Friday Finds (Poetry, Ireland, Music, Censorship)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from the Emerald Isle! This is my first trip to Ireland, the home of my favorite poet: John O'Donahue. Yesterday, I saw the Jack Yeats exhibit at
1/10/2022
18 : 44
Monday Musings (Cults, Censorship, Bathrooms, Kendrick Lamar)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! The next Write of Passage cohort begins on March 2nd and opens for enrollment in one month. Space is limited so if you're interested in
1/7/2022
15 : 14
Friday Finds (JFK, Fitness, China, Music, Envy)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! First up: My Annual Review is now live. I spent the better part of December cranking away on it. I'll be honest. It was a tough few
1/4/2022
0 : 24
Monday Musings (Stripe, Robinhood, Conspiracies, Annual Review)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! I've just published my 9000-word Annual Review. It's a deep dive into my entire professional life, from the state of my writing
12/31/2021
17 : 14
Friday Finds (Kanye, Breath, Dreams, Beethoven, Speed)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin, and happy New Year! We're looking to hire a full-time Director of Course Operations for Write of Passage. It's been an exciting
12/28/2021
0 : 14
Monday Musings (3x Speed, Golf, Twitter, Agency)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! This final week is one of my favorites of the year. The world is quiet, which makes it an excellent time to think and read deeply. If you
12/17/2021
19 : 34
Friday Finds (CIA, Airlines, Beauty, Thiel, Philosophy)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! With the year coming to an end, I'm heads down on writing my Annual Review while I finalize two exciting projects. First, a twelve-hour
12/13/2021
18 : 4
Monday Musings (Steve Jobs, Paradoxes, Gifts, Consensus, Delegating)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Here's what I want to share this week: Paradoxes of Modern Life: My mini-essay with some counter-intuitive ideas about our world.
12/10/2021
21 : 4
Friday Finds (Montreal, War, Thought Police, Winners, Companies)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Mexico! I'm down here for a wedding, where I'm also finding some time to write on the beach. Yesterday, I finished an long-form essay about
12/6/2021
18 : 34
Monday Musings (Maps, Insanity, Debate, Founders, Montreal)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Here's what I want to share this week: Never-Ending Now: I posted this mini-essay on Saturday, and with more than 1 million
12/3/2021
19 : 34
Friday Finds (Ideas, Sperm, Education, Divinity, Aquinas)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! Here's what I want to share this week: Fixing Writing Education: My short Twitter thread on why writing education is broken in schools
11/29/2021
22 : 4
Monday Musings (Disney, Prestige, Report Card, Teaching)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from Austin! It's game time. After having tons of fun for the past few months, my #1 goal for December is to double down on work and write a ton.
11/26/2021
21 : 14
Friday Finds (Kobe, Jesus, Snapchat, Dying, Eleusis)
Read in your browser here. Hi friends, Greetings from San Francisco! I'm back at my childhood home to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. With the holiday season beginning, I'm starting to